Art and Artifice
A weblog dedicated to everything concerning art and the law
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
French Court supports freedom to deny authenticity: a win for art experts
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Recently, the High Court of Appeals in Paris upheld an art expert's right to refuse to authenticate a work of art based on the freedom...
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ARR: UK seeks evidence from the art trade
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On behalf of the British government, the Intellectual Property Office is currently conducting an open consultation, "Artist’s Resale Ri...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Artists' resale royalties: a piece of pie, or not even that?
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Chart and extrapolations by Prof Paul Fritjers, UQ "Artists Resale Royalties: a piece of pie…", which you can read in full her...
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Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Time Warner in copyright dispute over photographs
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Legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995) captured many iconic images during his long and distinguished career - a large p...
Monday, 21 April 2014
U.S. Federal Government Seeks Return of New Deal Artworks
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Recovered Artwork: L. Lavelle, House on the Hill During the Great Depression the U.S. government enacted many federal programs to aid ...
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Priceless art discovered in US storage facility
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Almost 80 paintings which went missing in 1998 have been uncovered by the FBI in a storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The art...
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Snowy Mountain meltdown as precious artwork vanishes
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If you see something like this, be sure to tell the HK police "HK police seek 'thrown away' painting worth $3.72m" is ...
Friday, 4 April 2014
Kitchen art a bargain at 23 euro
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The two paintings shown above, displayed under police guard, were found hanging on an Italian factory worker's kitchen wall, where t...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Auction Houses already moving against ART Act
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Since the American Royalties Too Act was introduced in the US Senate at the end of last month, it appears that Sotheby's and Christie...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Henderskelfe Round 2: Still no tax to pay on Reynolds' portrait of Omai
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A year ago I reported on the case of Henderskelfe , in which the Upper Tribunal for tax announced an apparently odd decision: that an iconi...
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